Eduardo Galeano Books In Order

Memory of Fire Books In Order

  1. Genesis (1982)
  2. Faces and Masks (1987)
  3. Century of the Wind (1985)

Plays

  1. Open Veins of Latin America (1973)

Non fiction

  1. Soccer in Sun and Shadow (1980)
  2. Days and Nights of Love and War (1983)
  3. An Uncertain Grace (1990)
  4. The Book of Embraces (1991)
  5. We Say No (1992)
  6. Walking Words (1993)
  7. Football in Sun and Shadow (1997)
  8. Upside Down (1998)
  9. I Am Rich Potosi (1999)
  10. Voices of Time (2006)
  11. Mirrors (2009)
  12. Children of the Days (2013)
  13. Hunter of Stories (2017)

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Eduardo Galeano Books Overview

Genesis

‘From pre Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to the Age of Reagan, here is ‘nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere…
recounted in vivid prose.” The New YorkerA unique and epic history, Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy is an outstanding Latin American eye view of the making of the New World. From its first English language publication in 1985 it has been recognized as a classic of political engagement, original research, and literary form.

Faces and Masks

The second volume of Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy, Faces and Masks is an astonishing Latin American eye view of the New World in the making. Here is the tangled, cataclysmic history of our hemisphere from the 1700s up to the dawn of our present century, told through characters as resonant and compelling as Simon Bol var, Toussaint L Ouverture, and Billy the Kid. With its brilliant and imaginative blend of journalism, scholarship, and political passion, Faces and Masks is a panoramic interpretation of the Americas no work of history has previously imagined.

Century of the Wind

From pre Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to the Age of Reagan, here is ‘nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere…
recounted in vivid prose.’ The New Yorker . A unique and epic history, Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy is an outstanding Latin American eye view of the making of the New World. From its first English language publication in 1985 it has been recognized as a classic of political engagement, original research, and literary form.

Open Veins of Latin America

Since its U.S. debut a quarter century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe. Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably. This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende’s inspiring introduction. Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment.

Soccer in Sun and Shadow

The passion and the glory of the beautiful game, captured on the eve of the World Cup. From the origins of soccer to the World Cup played in the US in 1994, one of Latin America’s most fluent and widely read commentators captures the enduring appeal of the world’s greatest game. Eduardo Galeano seeks out the mystical and the bewitched, the romance and the emotional destitution experienced by players and fans the world round. Here is a story of love and death: of the suicide of Abdon Porte, who shot himself in the center circle of the National Stadium; of the Argentine manager who wouldn’t let his team eat chicken because it would bring bad luck; of the Russian goalkeeper who prepared his mind and soothed his nerves with a cigarette and a dash of vodka before each game. Published in the run up to the 1998 World Cup, this is the glory of soccer in all its international hues, with its multilingual cries of despair, victory and passion. No one who has ever played in or cheered on a soccer side will want to miss this book.

Days and Nights of Love and War

‘Days and Nights succeeds not only because of its socio political authenticity and lyrical style but because of its interweaving of anger and tenderness, elation and sorrow.’ The Nation Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America’s foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony, and occasional humor, Galeano pays loving tribute to the courage and determination of those who continued to believe in, and fight for, a more human existence. The Lannan Foundation awarded the 1999 Cultural Prize for Freedom to Eduardo Galeano, in recognition of those ‘whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry and expression.’ Originally published in Cuba, Days and Nights of Love and War won the Casa de las Am ricas prize in 1978.

An Uncertain Grace

An Uncertain Grace represents Salgado’s journey through poor villages in the Andes, shanty communities of miners in the Brazilian jungle, and refugee camps in famine stricken Ethiopia, Chad, and Mali. This book is one of the most important visual records of life in the twentieth century. Sebasti o Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic prize in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. A former member of Magnum Photos and recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, he has twice been named Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography. Essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin. Hardcover, 11 x 13 in./158 pgs

The Book of Embraces

‘The factual skeleton of the author’s life is given flesh and blood in his strangely beautiful book, in which poetry, fiction, autobiography, history, fantasy and political commentary mingle and reinforce each other in unexpected ways.’ The New York Times Book Review. Drawings.

We Say No

The title of We Say No is drawn from a speech Galeano delivered in support of democracy in Chile in 1988, stating that by saying no to a global system of greed and exploitation, one says yes to equality and freedom. The 34 pieces comprising this book affirm the struggle of the forgotten and dispossessed for human dignity.

Walking Words

From the author of Memory of Fire, a brilliant feat of storytelling in the tradition of Italo Calvino’s Italian Folktales. In Walking Words world renowned author Eduardo Galeano draws on the folklore of rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell ‘the stories of ghouls and fools that Id like to write.’ These tales are beautifully illustrated by his collaborator, the Brazilian woodcut artist Jos Francisco Borges, and become testaments to the power of stories to make and remake and enchant the world. Woodcuts throughout

Upside Down

Eduardo Galeano, author of the incomparable Memory of Fire trilogy, combines a novelist’s intensity, a poet’s lyricism, a journalist’s fearlessness, and the strong judgments of an engaged historian. Now his talents are richly displayed in Upside Down, an eloquent, passionate, sometimes hilarious expos of our first world privileges and assumptions. In a series of lesson plans and a ‘program of study’ about our beleaguered planet, Galeano takes the reader on a wild trip through the global looking glass. From a master class in ‘The Impunity of Power’ to a seminar on ‘The Sacred Car’ with tips along the way on ‘How to Resist Useless Vices’ and a declaration of ‘The Right to Rave’ he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness. We have accepted a reality we should reject, Galeano teaches us, one where machines are more precious than humans, people are hungry, poverty kills, and children toil from dark to dark. A work of fire and charm, Upside Down makes us see the world anew and even glimpse how it might be set right.

I Am Rich Potosi

The magnificent mountain of Potos in Bolivia yielded more silver than any other mountain or region of the world. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this wealth flowed through Spain into Europe and played an important role in the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution and trade with Asia. Yet the grueling work of extracting the silver was left to the indigenous population of the Andes, who were enslaved by the Spanish and died by the thousands on the mountain. Today, Potos maintains this unique culture, based on its epic history. Approximately eighteen thousand miners still work in or around the mountain, searching for trace amounts of silver and tin. Inside the mountain, miners worship their devil, who is represented as a sexually potent Spaniard, lord of the mineral realm. Photographer Stephen Ferry has made many trips to Potos to document this ongoing drama. His color images describe this world, which echoes back to the birth of modern Europe yet is one of the poorest places in the Americas. The text by Eduardo Galeano illuminates the complexity of the intersection of ancient rituals and the grandeur of the mountain and complements Ferry’s powerful portrait of this fascinating area. Ferry’s photographs are divided into four sections: the miners’ carnival; work that still takes place in and around the rich mountain; major institutions of civic life in the city of Potos ; and the festival of Esprit?, in which miners sacrifice llamas to the devil within the mountain to appease his thirst for blood so that he will not take their lives with accidents or illness.

Voices of Time

A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author’s own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself

In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much admired Memory of Fire trilogy brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political.

Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family s immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author s own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world.

Poetic and passionate, scathing and lyrical, delivered with Galeano s inimitable mix of gentle comedy and fierce moral judgment, Voices of Time is a deeply personal statement from a great and beloved writer.

Mirrors

Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism. Mirrors, Galeano s most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history s unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: Official history has it that Vasco N ez de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind?? Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty first century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men s fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.

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